LOS ANGELES, CA - -- A rookie firefighter in Los Angeles, California, helped convince a man who threatened to jump off an overpass in Hollywood to safely surrender after causing the closure of a main freeway Tuesday night.

The Los Angeles Fire Department said a rookie firefighter, Kenneth Fraser, was off-duty and heading home when he was pulled off the freeway.

When Fraser noticed the man on the overpass, he stopped his car, and went to go speak to him, authorities said.